Highland Games and Gathering of Scottish Clans > Tossing the caber takes a lot of strength. Highland games are contests in athletics, dancing, and music. Events of this kind were first held in...
Festival of Lanterns
Bon Festival July 13-15 People of almost all religions have special times for remembering their dead. Buddhists in Japan do this from July 13 to 15, on the festival of Bon. Bon is also known as...
Independence Day
by Laura Ingalls Wilder In this story, taken from the book Farmer Boy, young Almanzo Wilder enjoys the Fourth of July as it was celebrated in northern New York more than a hundred years ago. Almanzo...
Happy birthday, America!
Independence Day July 4 Red, white, and blue fireworks burst above the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific! It is July 4. On this day, the American people wish a happy birthday to their...
Hands across the border
International Freedom Festival How would you like to go to a weeklong birthday party? That's just what Canadians in Windsor, Ontario, and Americans in Detroit, Michigan, do. Canada's birthday,...
Happy birthday, Canada!
The Police Pipe Band adds to the excitement of Canada Day in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada Day July 1 Canada has a birthday on July 1. It's Canada Day, a national holiday that used to be...
The month of Julius Caesar
July is the seventh month of the year. It has thirty-one days. In ancient Roman times, when the year began in March, July was the fifth month of the year. It was called Quintilis, meaning \"fifth." ...
July
Comte de Rochambeau (1725) French general who fought in the American Revolution George Sand (1804) French writer Sir Charles Tupper (1821) a prime minister of Canada Thurgood Marshall (1908)...
Bonfires and baptisms
Midsummer Day and St. John's Day June 24 Long ago, people in Europe worshiped the sun. So the return of summer was a time of great rejoicing. The people lit bonfires--- symbols of the sun---and...
The Stars and Stripes
Flag Day June 14 Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! from The Flag Goes By by Henry...
